Mine is not inherently a reincarnation-heavy
belief system, but I have some
ideas (if not actual beliefs) about reincarnation which I find are not to the
dismay of my general
theological model, with the idea that we are bits of the
energy temporarily dispersed from the greater holistic energy of our Creator. It is my strong suspicion that it might indeed be possible that whatever energy goes into what could be called the human
soul may be
recycled into other souls. But, you see, not necessarily all at once.
Picture this: you have three
cups of
Gatorade, one
lemon-
lime (being a
light green), one
fruit punch (
red, naturally or artificially), and one
riptide rush (which is basically
grape and therefore a
hazy purple). These are the souls of some existing persons who die. Now, pour those three cups into a
bowl and they will run together (and the color will probably be some unappetizing dark greenish-brown, but unimportant in this
analogy). And now, pour out the contents of that bowl into three new cups, and you have created three unique new mixes, although you might with a CSI team backing you be able to figure out how much of each original flavor went into each of the new blends. Or, if you're that good, perhaps you'll know by taste alone.
But instead of a bowl to which three cups are added, what we have is an
ocean of cosmic proportion, and billions of billions of cups, and they are constantly going out and coming in. And there, then, you would have the
human race.
Naturally, with the population constantly expanding you have "new" material (i.e. additional energy never before contained within a soul) being added to the mix all the time, mixed in with that of the oldest souls, which are getting stretched thin). And so, ultimately, every one of us has some drop of most every person who has lived before-- there's a little bit of
Jesus in all of us, a little bit of the
Buddha, some of
Moses and
Muhammed and
Confucious and a random Aztec warrior and the first
aborigine to set foot in Australia, and the ancestors of the
Vikings and the
Zulu and the
Ainu and the
Sioux.
Perhaps bits and pieces of the previous memories and personalities survive, which would explain a lot of things,
deja vu, strange
dreams, some
internal conflict and
turmoil, even
mental illnesses!! But, I also think that some
personality aspects would
randomly and
fortuitously blend to make a particularly strong mix. And the point of such a process would be to improve the quality of these bits and pieces through mixing, cooking in the
oven of
life experience, then remixing and cooking some more. And so, like the folding and refolding of steel to
cauterize impurities, perhaps the stuff that souls are made of is similarly purified, rarefied, led to the point where it is worthy of rejoining our Creator when the Universe meets its end!!